Himmatwala
Cast: Ajay Devgn, Tamannaah, Paresh Rawal, Mahesh Manjrekar, Zarina Wahab
Direction: Sajid Khan
Rating:
Due credit first, to Sajid Khan for honesty. Note how the posters describe Himmatwala as A Sajid Khan Entertainer. Nowhere do they specify it is a 'film'. Entertainment, unlike film, is a variable asset, Sajid would perhaps argue. One person’s entertainment can be another's headache.
A review of Himmatwala is redundant. If you hate Sajid's brand of entertainment you won't waste time over analysis, chances are you won’t read the review anyway. If you love this kind of bawdy circus you don't care what a review says, chances are you don't read reviews anyway.
Sajid directs bad films that make good money. His cinema so far has revealed no ambition at improving or reimagining mainstream rules. Quite apt that his latest should be a remake of a potboiler hit of the eighties, a decade most regard as creatively the worst for Hindi cinema.
Himmatwala 2013 retains every bit of the tacky swagger that worked 30 years ago, raising a pertinent question. If this remake turns out to be a hit as Sajid has pompously predicted, has Hindi commercial cinema really not moved anywhere in three decades?
To refresh the 'story', Ajay plays Ravi, son of a poor woman (Zarina Wahab) who raises the boy to avenge the wrongs on their family. There is the evil landlord (Mahesh Manjrekar) behind the brutality, to justify the hero's action quota. And there is the landlord's spoilt daughter (Tamanaah), to justify his naach-gaana and crude comic bursts.
source:http://indiatoday.intoday.in
